January 22, 2010
Lots of people keep phoning saying ‘ Where are you? ‘ ’ I used to train at the Academy and want to come back’ So here’s directions from the old school in Hoxton square. Come out of the Old school and turn left, walk up to the school and pub on the corner. Turn left [...]
Like most people I feel the need to be more organised and I try to fit the most I can into my day. Having small ten minute slots for doing your cardio or yoga stretching or for drilling is I find more approachable and at least it gets done that way. Being overly ambitious you [...]
Classes are back to normal now despite the snow. Don’t take any risks coming in but classes are back on and going strong. Last Thursday we had nearly a full house on what was a very nasty evening. From this week we’ll be focusing on Grading techniques with a new revised syllabus. Gradings at the [...]
A happy new year to all our members and friends logging in. It looks like it’s going to be a great year. It’s going to be the Chinese year of the tiger this year (from Febuary ) so lets get going and roar our way through the year. The training is going to be tough, [...]
A happy Christmas to all our members and friends. Many thanks for all your support this year. We wish you all, current and old members plus our old friends a wonderful Christmas and a happy and joyous new year. We’ve had a great year with lots of positive change and we hope that 2010 brings [...]
We’ve had problems with getting our email for quite some time. Today we have changed to a gmail account which is also the link on the website. bobbreenacademy@gmail.com If you need to get in contact just use the link. We’ve been working on a lot of these background technical problems this week so things should [...]
We have managed to get an earlier slot on a Monday and will be starting our programme at 6.30 from next Monday the Thirtieth. I’ll be taking this class with Carl doing his class afterwards as usual and either Gordon or Winston doing the Thai boxing at 8.30. We’ll keep this arrangement up until Christmas [...]
Congratulations to Carl Jackson who won the WEKAF British Championships in the double sticks and Silver medal in the Single stick category. Carl has been focusing on his stickfighting for a year or two and it’s paid off tremendously. Carl is an all rounder despite his stickfighting achievements and is featured in my book on [...]
We’ve had lots of people wanting to join recently but we’ve had to put them off as I’ve been in China and we also wanted to bed in the training at the new venue for the existing students. Beginners should now attend on Tuesdays at 7.30 and Thursdays at 6.30 as we’ll have time to [...]